Archive for 2008

Cache Creek or Cash Creek?

Today prospectors go to Cache Creek to pan for gold. But in the 1860's, the prospectors headed to the mining camp of Cash Creek. The cre...

12:02 PM

Pinging my networks. My friends at http://ping.fm/Z0KKe are back hard at work in the office after a much needed Christmas break.

Gold's down this afternoon below $839. Winter solstice has come and gone, and that means our days are getting longer. What does that ha...

Until 1879, Chaffee County was the southern part of Lake County. The 1860 and 1870 census will show people who lived in what is now Chaffee ...

Buena Vista 7:49 PM

Today I visited the Colorado State Archives again and sifted through five boxes of court records. Three of them held nothing of interest, th...

Driving to Salida and Buena Vista reminded me again of my connection to the Upper Arkansas Valley; a land where I’ve never lived, never even...

On Thursday morning I went to the Chaffee County Clerk's office and started looking through the Grantee/Grantor indexes. About thirty mi...

Arkansas River between Canon City and Salida Last week I drove to Salida and Buena Vista for three days of research. And, it was a producti...

Black Mountain is northeast of Salida in the southern part of South Park. The IM or Mulock Ranch was on the west side of Black Mountain (thi...